Metro Court Project: A Study of Mediation and Adjudication in Bernalillo County (Albuquerque), New Mexico, Small Claims Court, 1990-1992 (ICPSR 6487)

Citation

LaFree, Gary, and Rack, Christine. Metro Court Project: A Study of Mediation and Adjudication in Bernalillo County (Albuquerque), New Mexico, Small Claims Court, 1990-1992. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06487.v1

Summary

This study used court records and interviews with
disputants, litigants, and mediators in Bernalillo County, New Mexico,
to compare the effects of ethnicity and gender in mediated versus
adjudicated small claims disputes. Initial structured telephone
interviews with both adjudicated and mediated claimants and respondents
(Parts 1-4) were conducted. Follow-up questionnaires (Parts 6-8) were
then administered to the initial interviewed groups. Data from
mediators (Part 9) were collected from self-administered structured
questionnaires. Pertinent questions from all eight survey instruments
were combined into a master file (Part 5). This data collection also
includes two qualitative summary files of adjudicated and mediated
cases (Parts 10-11). The unit of analysis is the small claims case.

Citation

LaFree, Gary, and Rack, Christine. Metro Court Project: A Study of Mediation and Adjudication in Bernalillo County (Albuquerque), New Mexico, Small Claims Court, 1990-1992. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06487.v1

Funding

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Time Period(s)

1990-06 -- 1991-10

Date of Collection

1990-09 -- 1992-01

Data Collection Notes

(1) Parts 10 and 11 of this collection are text files
that are qualitative summaries of mediated and adjudicated cases. (2)
The original questionnaires are available only in hardcopy form upon
request from ICPSR.

Data Type(s)

Original Release Date

1995-12-20

Version Date

2006-01-12

Version History

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 12 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.

Notes

The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.

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